Literary Criticism
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Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction
$26.99 Add to cartIn this thoughtful collection of essays, Andrea Barrett draws from her experiences writing some of the most acclaimed historical fiction of our time to explore the mysteries and delights of the genre.
- Author: Barrett, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1324036508
- Language: English
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Reading Genesis
$20.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis.
For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by- Author: Robinson, Marilynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1250371856
- Language: English
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To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other
$26.95 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive poli
- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Author: Nguyen, Viet Thanh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0674298179
- Language: English
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Atrocity: A Literary History
$32.00 Add to cartExploring literary representations of mass violence, Bruce Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity.
Mass violence did not always have a name. Like conquest, what we thi
- Author: Robbins, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1503640558
- Language: English
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The Tempest: The New Oxford Shakespeare
$8.99 Add to cart‘How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which S
That has such people in’t!’- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0192865870
- Language: English
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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories – 20th Anniversary Edition
$29.99 Read more**20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION**
This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of ‘basic stories’ in the world.- Author: Booker, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1399415921
- Language: English
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Laozi’s DAO de Jing: A New Interpretation for a Transformative Time
$17.99 Add to cartA fresh, graceful translation of one of the most important and timeless classics–the foundational work of Daoism–by award-winning novelist Ken Liu, who contextualizes and demystifies this famously e… [more below]
- Author: Laozi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 166801937X
- Language: English
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Notes of a Native Son
$24.00 Read moreA deluxe hardcover edition of one of James Baldwin’s most admired works, exploring what it means to be Black in America and his own search for identity
Part of the Beacon Classics series Originally p- Series: Beacon Classics
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 080701897X
- Language: English
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Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres
$17.95 Add to cartWhen we talk about hybrid literary genres, what do we mean? Unprecedented in both its scope and approach, Family Resemblance is the first anthology to explore the answer to that question in depth, pro
- Author: Sulak, Marcela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 04 2015
- ISBN10: 1941628028
- Language: English
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Hawthorne’s Prophets: The Bible and the Creation of American Literature
$26.00 Read more- Author: Ellwood, Fay Elanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0881469505
- Language: English
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Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005
$24.00 Add to cartJ.M. Coetzee’s latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.
In addition to being one of the most acclaimed and accomplis- Author: Coetzee, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 014311378X
- Language: English
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Festival of Heresies
$15.00 Read moreThere’s a reason Emi Shimamoto can’t find a job. For as long as she can remember, she’s been unable to tell the living from the dead. Resigned to yet another failure, she attends an interview with Mor… [more below]
- Series: Office Sasaki #1
- Author: Rokakoen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1975399889
- Language: English
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Haunted States: An American Gothic Guidebook
$16.95 Read moreA fusion of travel literature and cultural criticism investigating the dark history of the US and exploring how past horrors – from witch trials to slavery and genocide – continue to haunt the nationa… [more below]
- Author: Corcoran, Miranda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1914420322
- Language: English
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As You Like It: The New Oxford Shakespeare
$8.99 Add to cart‘We that are true lovers run into strange capers.’
Four centuries after its publication in the Folio, As You Like It‘s capacity to entertain and instruct remains evergreen. This edition provides a fri- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0192865803
- Language: English
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Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography
$20.00 Add to cartA worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspire readers to think anew about Homer’s work
No one knows whether Homer was a rea- Author: Manguel, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0300272472
- Language: English
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Reading Culture Through Catholic Eyes: 50 Writers, Thinkers, and Firebrands Who Challenge and Change Us
$25.00 Add to cartEnjoy this book. Add it to your library. Treat it like its own little library, and enjoy the edification and education, challenge, and joy of reading Jim’s informed cultural commentary on so many of o
- Author: Keane, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1626985979
- Language: English
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Origins of a Story: 202 True Inspirations Behind the World’s Greatest Literature
$24.95 Add to cartFor readers and writers alike, Origins of a Story is the inspiring collection of 202 amazing true stories behind the inspiration for the world’s greatest literature!
Did you know Lennie from Of Mice an
- Author: Grogan, Jake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1604337516
- Language: English
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Maidens or Monsters?: Tales of Amazons, Goddesses, Queens and Temptresses in Medieval Manuscripts
$29.95 Add to cartAn illustrated collection of exceptional female figures in myth and legend
In the Middle Ages, some of the most popular and well-loved stories were about female saints, classical heroines, and the fem
- Author: Westwell, Chantry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0295753544
- Language: English
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The DAO of Complexity: Making Sense and Making Waves in Turbulent Times
$24.99 Add to cartFinalist in the Leadership – Think Differently category of the Goody Business Book Awards 2024
The pandemic, climate change, rising populism, geo-political unrest – just a few of the issues causing t
- Series: Neudrucke Deutscher Literaturwerke. N. F.
- Author: Boulton, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: September 23 2024
- ISBN10: 3110992647
- Language: English
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The Book Lover’s Almanac: A Year of Literary Events, Letters, Scandals and Plot Twists
$29.99 Add to cartEnjoy daily distraction with this engaging Almanac.
Each date is assigned one or more literary connections. Book lovers will find extracts from authors’ diaries and letters, chance upon the narrativ- Author: Johnson, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0712354247
- Language: English
